Cupertino: Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs died on Wednesday. He was 56 years old. He had been battling cancer and other health issues for several years and had a rare form of pancreatic cancer. Apple announced his death late on Wednesday night without giving a specific cause.
Trivandrum – The Syro-Malabar Church in the state has a checkered history over the years of leading its flock in search of greener pastures and empowering them as a formidable force in society.
Ocean City, Maryland (CNN) — Residents in several major East Coast cities — including Washington, Philadelphia and New York — braced late Saturday for the impact from Hurricane Irene. By Saturday evening, the storm had already knocked out power in more than a million homes, forced more than a million people off the New Jersey shore alone and caused at least nine deaths.
BENGHAZI: Libyan rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil on Monday hailed the end of the four-decade “Gaddafi era,” after his fighters took control of most of Tripoli. “The Gaddafi era is over,” he told a press conference in Benghazi, eastern Libya, referring to Libya’s veteran leader Gaddafi.
BENGHAZI: Libya’s rebels were pushing further on Wednesday to isolate Tripoli in what their leaders say is a decisive phase in a six-month civil war against Muammer Gaddafi they predict will end within weeks.
Nearly a third of the world’s population lives in countries where it is becoming more difficult to freely practice religion, a private US research group reported on Tuesday.The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life said government restrictions and public hostility involving religion grew in some of the most populous countries from mid-2006 to mid-2009.
Moscow (CNN) — A cargo plane crashed in the Russia’s East Siberia, apparently killing all eleven people on board, Russian transport officials reported Tuesday. The Antonov-12 plane carrying nine crew members and two passengers as well as 16 tons of food was en route Tuesday from the Far East city of Magadan northwards to the Chukotka peninsula when it disappeared from radars some 300 kilometers, or 190 miles, from its take-off point, the Russian Far East Transport Prosecutor’s Office said on its website.
London (CNN) — After a fourth consecutive night of violence that convulsed much of London and spread elsewhere in Britain, the scene before dawn Wednesday was largely calm, a tentative calm enforced by thousands of police. Hours before, police reported outbreaks of violence in Wolverhampton and West Bromwich, about 100 miles north of London, and in the northwestern city of Manchester. There, a library and supermarket were ablaze, said Jeff Gill from the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue.
SYDNEY: Asian equity markets were sharply down early on Tuesday as investors fearing a possible global economic slowdown continued to flee stocks. Oil fell below USD 78 per barrel, toppling to its lowest price of the year on concerns that a slowing global economy could crimp demand for fuel. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index plunged 4.4 per cent to 8,694.31 in the morning session, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index plummeted 7.3 per cent to 18,998.51. South Korea’s Kospi index plummeted 8.2 per cent to 1,716.05.
London – Many Britons are welded to their smartphones 24 hours a day and refuse to turn them off in cinemas and theatres, according to a study Thursday showing how the devices are changing social behavior.
In one of the worst instances of public protest in the United Kingdom in recent years, an irate mob went on a rampage in north London, setting vehicles on fire and indulging in looting to protest against the killing of a 29-year-old local man in police firing.
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — In the single deadliest loss for U.S. troops since the Afghan war began in late 2001, 30 service members died early Saturday when a helicopter carrying them went down while they were reinforcing other troops, officials said.
WASHINGTON: In an unprecedented move, credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded the US government’s ‘AAA’ sovereign credit rating – a development which raises concerns that investors will lose confidence in its economy.
JEDDAH: Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal unveiled plans yesterday to build the world’s tallest tower in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, signing a 4.6 billion riyal ($1.23 billion) contract with Bin Laden Group. The proposed tower, which will rise more than 1,000 meters and take just over five years to complete, is the centerpiece of the planned Kingdom City development being built outside Jeddah by Prince Alwaleed’s Kingdom Holding.
CAIRO, Aug 3 (KUNA) — Former President Hosni Mubarak and his songs Alaa and Jamal denied Wednesday during their trial at the police academy headquarters all accusations which the prosecution had laid down.
CAIRO, Aug 3, 2011 (AFP) -Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak appeared on a stretcher for the opening of his murder trial in Cairo on Wednesday, as his two sons stood by his side in the dock.
Washington: Osama bin Laden has been killed outside Abbotabad, about 150 km from Islamabad in Pakistan, the US President Barack Obama announced today. He was killed by US forces.
The website of the man who’s triggered a minor worldwide frenzy. Richard Nolle is an astrologer, not a scientist. And he says the Moon is triggering horrible natural disasters on earth. Here’s how. The Moon orbits Earth in an oval shaped or elliptical orbit. Its distance from earth varies, depending on where it is in this orbit.
London – Wealthy foreigners and entrepreneurs will be offered a fast track route to settle in Britain as per new immigration rules.
It should have been an alluring photoshoot between two of nature’s beautiful creatures as a model wrapped herself in a snake. But surgically enhanced model Orit Fox got more than she bargained for when the massive boa constrictor took objection to her over familiarity and reacted by biting into her breast.
Non-Resident Indians (NRI), especially the high net worth individuals (HNWI), are massively shifting their dollar denominated deposits into high yielding rupee deposits. In fact, several Indian banks are in the market with new rupee-deposit schemes targeted at NRIs.
Authorities in at least 20 countries and numerous Pacific islands issued tsunami warnings Friday after an 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck Japan, the National Weather Service said.
After making lifetime highs for two consecutive sessions, gold prices are down more than $14 per ounce, or almost 1 per cent, to $1423.19/oz this morning, indicating profit-taking on the part of traders.
When Aimee Brenden, an employee at a retailer company, inherited some reports from another division, she saw some discrepancies. Her co-worker, doing exactly the same kind of a job was getting about 40 per cent more than she was taking home.
Oil-rich monarchies in the Gulf may have chosen to pre-empt protests by opening their coffers to their citizens, but other Arab states in turmoil — or in the wake of it — lack the “cash for calm” option.
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